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Title: Multiple Copies Of Halo...what To Hex Edit?
Post by: fezzman on May 04, 2004, 05:16:00 AM

Hey all.  I've got two copies of halo on my xbox.  One is normal and the other has all permanently modded maps on it.  Somewhere I saw a thread that showed how to change how one copy names the cache files so that both copies can co-exist.  I think the new cache files were being called cachv or cachev.  

Does anybody know what I'm talking about?  Know where the link is.  My searches have turned up nil.

Thanks.

Title: Multiple Copies Of Halo...what To Hex Edit?
Post by: DaShiZNiT on May 04, 2004, 01:34:00 PM

I dont think hes talking about renaming the xbe,
more like trying to get 2 versions, of the Cached files from halo on his X,Y,or Z

sorry I cant help you, but maybe Ive helped someone else help you!
-LoL

Title: Multiple Copies Of Halo...what To Hex Edit?
Post by: JoePo on May 04, 2004, 03:18:00 PM

when i was scrolling through the hex of the default.xbe I did find all the names of the cache files in a little list, but I'm not sure if you could just change them to a different name and it would save/load to that name, it's gotta be more complicated then that, but maybe not.

Title: Multiple Copies Of Halo...what To Hex Edit?
Post by: JoePo on May 04, 2004, 03:51:00 PM

actually never mind, I think I saw those when I was looking at the default.xbe of HCE.  I was trying to mess with the location of the patch file folder.  So nevermind, I'm a moron.  I would be interested in figuring this out though.

Title: Multiple Copies Of Halo...what To Hex Edit?
Post by: jkjk on May 04, 2004, 06:19:00 PM

u could just clear the cache or play 3 levels that you didn't just play

Title: Multiple Copies Of Halo...what To Hex Edit?
Post by: fezzman on May 04, 2004, 07:36:00 PM

QUOTE (jkjk @ May 5 2004, 03:19 AM)

u could just clear the cache or play 3 levels that you didn't just play

Yeah, that's easy enough to do.  It's just that it would be much cleaner if, on halo night, we could simply switch from game to game (modded and unmodded) without any fuss.

Title: Multiple Copies Of Halo...what To Hex Edit?
Post by: Pillzburydoofus on May 05, 2004, 04:31:00 AM

No matter how you do it, you'd have to launch a different xbe, meaning going back to dashboard.  You can try hex editing the xbe and changing the map names in it (and renaming them accordingly) but it would be easier to play modded halo on hdd and regular off disc.  If this is not an option to you (uhumm, because your disc was lost in a house fire, but somehow your xbox magically survived.) you can try out this xbox app called ParallelX, available in the usual places.  Read documentation carefully.  Just make sure that when you launch parallelX that it's xbe is default.xbe.  Really easy, and doesn't take much time.  Check it out.

Title: Multiple Copies Of Halo...what To Hex Edit?
Post by: JoePo on May 05, 2004, 06:42:00 AM

Actually, the alternative to this which i had found earlier, but I can't seem to to find now, was having halo launch HCE when you click on game demos in the main menu.  From there you could clear the cache, and pick which version of halo you wanted to launch rather easily.  That way you wouldn't have to return to the dashboard at all or do any in game resets.

But I think you'd have to put HCE in both of your halo folders.  And I would also want to access all my patches from a single directory when running either copy of HCE, so thats why i was looking through the default.xbe of HCE.  

I haven't heard of that parallelx though, I'll have to check that out first.